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Dialog in the Open World: Platform and Applications – ReceptionistICMI

August 20, 2009 | Dan Bohus

The video shows a demonstrative interaction with Receptionist, a physically situated interactive prototype built to assist people in making shuttle reservations on campus. The video shows the multimodal analysis performed by the system, and illustrates…

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The Application of Bayesian Inference to Traffic Analysis

George Danezis, Carmela Troncoso

MSR-TR-2009-112 | August 2009

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Learning Term-weighting Functions for Similarity Measures

Scott Wen-tau Yih

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing | August 2009

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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A Study of Feature Design for Online Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition based on Continuous-Density Hidden Markov Models

Lei Ma, Qiang Huo, Yu Shi

ICDAR 2009 | July 2009

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Designing Partial Differential Equations for Image Processing by Combining Differential Invariants

Zhouchen Lin, Wei Zhang, Xiaoou Tang

MSR-TR-2009-192 | August 2009

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Quadratic-Time Dependency Parsing for Machine Translation

Michel Galley, Christopher D. Manning

Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP (ACL-AFNLP) | August 2009

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Robust Machine Translation Evaluation with Entailment Features

Sebastian Pado, Michel Galley, Dan Jurafsky, Christopher D. Manning

Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP (ACL-AFNLP) | August 2009

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A Machine Learning Approach for Improved BM25 Retrieval

Krysta M. Svore, Christopher J.C. Burges, Chris J.C. Burges, Krysta M. Svore

MSR-TR-2009-92 | July 2009

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Who Talks to Whom: Modeling Latent Structures in Dialogue Documents

Bailu Ding, Jiang-Ming Yang, Chong Wang, Rui Cai, Zhiwei Li (李志伟), Lei Zhang

NIPS Workshop on Applications for Topic Models: Text and Beyond | July 2009

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Simultaneously Modeling Semantics and Structure of Threaded Discussions: a Sparse Coding Approach and its Applications

Chen Lin, Jiang-Ming Yang, Rui Cai, Xin-Jing Wang, Wei Wang, Lei Zhang

Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR 2009) | July 2009

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